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Section VI Holborn Bridge Passage to be enlarged.

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And whereas the Way or Passage of Holbourne bridge is now too straight and incommodious for the many Carriages and Passengers dayly useing and frequenting the same and is therefore necessary to be enlarged Bee it therefore likewise enacted That it shall and may be lawfull for the said Maior, Aldermen and Commons soe to enlarge and make wider the same as that the said Way and Passage may runn in a Bevill Line from a certaine Timber house on the North side thereof commonly called or knowne by the Name or Signe of the Cocke unto the Front of the Buildings of a certaine Inne called the Swan Inne scituate on the North side of Holbourne Hill as aforesaid.